unaccustomed
Example Sentences
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One of Luna’s friends, unaccustomed to the social boundaries of a more analog era, called 17 times in a day.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
Tennessee, Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana -- southern states unaccustomed to intense winter weather and the bone-chilling cold that's forecast to continue for much of the next week -- were especially impacted.
From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026
Vallieries, who’d only won one prior race as a pro, was so unaccustomed to the ritual she appeared baffled by the protocols of her medal ceremony.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
To have lived their whole lives unaccustomed to the smell of cigarettes lingering on clothes after a night out.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2025
But unlike Adams, I was unaccustomed to peering down at cumulonimbus cells from 29,000 feet, and I therefore remained ignorant of the storm that was even then bearing down.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
Vocabulary lists containing unaccustomed
Flowers for Algernon
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Stories of Ourselves
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